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Woman Hailed by President as Obamacare Success Story Now Can't Afford Obamacare (staying uninsured)
weekly standard ^ | Nov 19, 2013 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 11/19/2013 5:46:50 AM PST by sickoflibs

CNN reports that a woman the president hailed as an Obamacare success story just realized she won't be able to afford Obamacare because it's too expensive.

"Jessica Sanford was cited by the president as an Obamacare success story at a health care event he had here at the White House in the Rose Garden on October 21," says a reporter for CNN from the White House. "That of course being just last month. The 48-year-old single mom from Washington state purchased what she considered to be affordable health care, life-changing event, she said, on the Washington state health exchange. She decided she was so excited about this news, she wanted to write an e-mail to the president to say that this had really changed her life and that she was thankful for the Afforable Care Act. The president included her e-mail in his remarks to people on hand for the event. Here's a bit of what the president had to say."

The CNN report quotes President Obama as saying, "I recently received a letter from a woman named Jessica Sanford in Washington state. And here's what she wrote, I am a single mom, no child support, self-employed. and I haven't had insurance for 15 years because it's too expensive. I was crying the other day when I signed up, so much stress lifted."

"But days, just really three days after she was mentioned by the president, Jessica Sanford started having problems, she was receiving letters from the Washington state health exchange," reports CNN. "The first letter telling her that tax credit was reduced, therefore, increasing the cost of her health care plan and the, take a look at this, then she received a letter just last week telling her that her tax credit had been taken away all together. Show you another document here, showing what the tax credit worked out to be... zero dollars according to this document that was provided to us by Jessica Sanford. She describes all of this as a roller coaster ride. Now she says she can't afford insurance in Washington state because of the new developments."

Sanford tells CNN that she's embarrassed. "It was a huge disappointment, especially since I had, you know, my story had been shared by the president. I felt like, you know, I just felt really embarrassed that, you know, he quoted my story and then come to find that the Washington health plan finder, the website here in our state, had grossly miscalculated or they're having a problem figuring their tax credits. and so at least for right now, I don't -- I'm not going to be getting insurance," she says.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare
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To: sickoflibs

Single mom?

Why, I’d bet a whole lot that she voted for a substitute husband.


61 posted on 11/19/2013 6:06:18 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Arrowhead1952

30 posts...outstanding!


62 posted on 11/19/2013 6:07:10 AM PST by EEGator
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

The define the end goals as infinitely good,
so that the equation

means divided by ends

always justifies ANY means necessary.


63 posted on 11/19/2013 6:08:04 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Nervous Tick

Point of order.....

Who is Fred


64 posted on 11/19/2013 6:08:45 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

And she won’t get her “free” birth control so that “all she has to worry about is getting him between the covers”.


65 posted on 11/19/2013 6:08:48 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: bert

>> Who is Fred

Shouldn’t that be “who ARE Fred”? :-)


66 posted on 11/19/2013 6:10:40 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: ken in texas

The woman sounds like the usual self-loathing LIB idiot. She is back where she started...and being fined $95 next year. Sorry, “taxed”. There is silent resignation...no righteous anger at the LIB/DIM cretins who placed this upon her. No awakening. No logic chain kicking in. Just a quiet skull full of mush. She’ll crawl back into her hole until she has a chance to vote for more LIBs/DIMs in the next election. Maybe they’ll give her something.


67 posted on 11/19/2013 6:12:22 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: sickoflibs

I went to find the original CNN story, which is here:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/19/woman-cited-by-president-as-obamacare-success-story-frustrated-by-sign-up-process/

But amazingly, the comments are turned off. Imagine that.


68 posted on 11/19/2013 6:14:49 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: left that other site

69 posted on 11/19/2013 6:16:28 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: sickoflibs
I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

I wonder if she is related to Fred?

70 posted on 11/19/2013 6:16:37 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (If you liked the website, you'll LOVE the healthcare!)
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To: sickoflibs

Wasn’t it just yesterday that the Democrat governor of WA cowrote an op ed about how well the exchange was working in his state?


71 posted on 11/19/2013 6:20:28 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: sickoflibs

Wasn’t it just yesterday that the Democrat governor of WA cowrote an op ed about how well the exchange was working in his state?


72 posted on 11/19/2013 6:21:38 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: sickoflibs

73 posted on 11/19/2013 6:23:16 AM PST by PLD
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To: sickoflibs
I am a single mom...

I hate this phrase! As soon as someone intentionally utters this phrase we'll all supposed to collective sigh, "awe...".

This phrase has turned into nothing more than an instant appeal for victim-hood status and I hate it. Everybody's situation is certainly different, but on some level we all make choices. I am tired of having to carry the load for people who regularly make bad choices in their lives and expect everyone else to pick them up, dust them off, and say, "There, there, how much money and public support can we now give you because you're a single mom?"

Sometimes Americans just love to wallow in self pity and it's getting very tiresome. Many of these are the same ones who are hardcore Liberals and who refuse to acknowledge Biblical principles as hokey and beneath them and then rail against Christian Conservatives.

Sometime, not all the time, but sometimes you make your choices and there are known consequences and it ain't MY fault. Do something different. Make different choices to achieve better outcomes.

Boo hoo, I'm a single Mom.

74 posted on 11/19/2013 6:24:52 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: EEGator

Just 37 duplicates the other day. Start at reply 13.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3092060/posts


75 posted on 11/19/2013 6:25:17 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Great point. This thing sure is a mess.


76 posted on 11/19/2013 6:25:30 AM PST by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: sickoflibs

300 million people and they can’t find one, not one person in the entire country to legitimately hold up as a happy Obamacare customer.


77 posted on 11/19/2013 6:27:36 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

The funny thing here isn’t that she’s a low info voter who got duped, she demonstrates that she’s conditioned to see it as HER fault.

Not the President’s for creating this mess. Not the WA Dem governor for misimplementing this mess.

By assuming herself tp be the one at fault, she just SCREAMS “Battered Spouse Syndrome”


78 posted on 11/19/2013 6:28:25 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: pabianice

Blood Wine is usually served with Schadenfreude! :-)


79 posted on 11/19/2013 6:28:27 AM PST by left that other site (.)
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To: faucetman
Okay, enough of your multitude of posts. It's not funny. It's annoying and following a stern warning you should be banned if that behavior continues.
80 posted on 11/19/2013 6:28:53 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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